As announced by U.S. EPA and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Arch Coal Inc. and 14 of its subsidiaries under International Coal Group Inc. (ICG) agreed to conduct upgrades to their operations to ensure Clean Water Act compliance. This settlement resolves hundreds of Clean Water Act violations related to illegal discharges of pollutants at coal mines in KY, PA, MD, VA, and WV. Companies will also pay a $2 million civil penalty.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced recently that Arch Coal Inc., one of the nation’s largest coal companies, and 14 of its subsidiaries under the International Coal Group Inc. (ICG) have agreed to conduct comprehensive upgrades to their operations to ensure compliance with the Clean Water Act.

Antergos is an Arch-based Linux distribution that offers six desktop choices. This is a distro that Linux tinkerers might well embrace, but it comes with a few more stumbling blocks than other Linux options, which could make it a less welcome alternative. Its developers created a cute logo that espouses the notion that Antergos is a distro "for everyone." In some ways, that is true.

As power utilities are seen to be increasingly switching to cheaper natural gas and big-ticket clients such as China cut down on coal imports, the global coal industry is gripped by a downturn that has started to take its toll. One of the largest producers of coal in the world, United States-based Arch Coal Inc. , reportedly, hired restructuring advisers including Blackstone Group LP's credit advisers GSO Capital Partners, investment bank Moelis & Co , hedge fund Hutchin Hill Capital LP and lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardwell LP to help deal with its $5.15 billion debt, as of March 31, 2015.